'Wonderfully irreverent, engrossing - a tour-de-force of storytelling' Gemma Hussey, former Minister for Education 'Gripping and gory and vivid' Maire Ui Mhaicin, academic and folklore specialist '[O'Neill] takes his young teen readers time-travelling with protagonist Dark through tales that straddle the knowable and the imaginary. There is nothing implausible about the emotions that course through these latter-day folktales ... Read morethat bring LED lighting to fairy raths; no false notes dim their sense of loss and betrayal or, indeed, O'Neill's idiomatic style. This is a book straight from the oral tradition - it would sparkle if read aloud' Mary Shine Thompson, The Irish Times 'Tom O'Neill manages to bring new twists and new ideas into the tales in this book. You get really engrossed in the characters' lives and they seem real, not just myth and legend anymore. Tom O'Neill really brings the characters, and the stories themselves, to life. I really liked this book and was absorbed in the story from the very beginning' Brid, age 14, Leitrim Show Less